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Hile was found guilty by a jury in San Diego on two felony counts of interstate stalking ‘with the intent to kill, injure, or harass’.

Only afterwards did the full story of what happened to Miss Watkins emerge.

FBI Special Agent Steve Kim of the Computer and Technology Crime High-Tech Response Team, said that she was a ‘victim twice’.

Revenge: When Mr Hine learned it was not the woman, he planned a revenge plot against her - and came dangerously close to possibly finishing it

Agent Kim said that back in 2007 when she was 18 she took some steamy pictures of herself along with shots of her in a bikini and put them on Photobucket.

Her account was hacked and some 200 images then began circulating on the Internet, with some used to advertise porn sites.

Agent Kim said that Miss Watkins never met Hile and that she had ‘no idea’ what the pictures of her were being used for.

Even after the sentencing Brett Hile still maintains that he does not think his brother would have actually gone through with the murder.

He has said: ‘Brian eventually realized that Tiffany had nothing to do with the deceit but he was so set on revenge that he was wondering whether to give her and those behind the elaborate hokes a stern warning or whether to just kill them all.’